Free Year 6 English Check-up

What this checks

Ten questions drawn from 20 Year 6 english topics — easy first, then medium, then two harder ones. The result shows which topics look comfortable and which may need more practice.

• • Explanation texts and cause and effect
• • History and environment texts
• • Reading legends and historical fiction
• • Reading timetables and schedules
• • Similes, metaphors and figurative language
• • Subject-verb agreement
• • Active and passive voice
• • Adjectives, adverbs and modifiers
• • Joining sentences with conjunctions
• • Apostrophes, speech and capitals
• • Advanced vocabulary and nearest meaning
• • Advanced spelling and sound-alike words
• • Reading maps, keys and directions
• • Science texts: order of events and numbers
• • Logical continuation and best answer
• • Comparing words and choosing the right verb
• • Who, whom, whose, which and that
• • Opposites, prefixes and abbreviations
• • Misplaced modifiers and sentence sense
• • Lie, lay and confusing verb pairs

10 questions from across the year's topics, from easy to harder, that change each time, so it can be taken again. This is a short, informal check to help you decide what to practise — not a formal assessment.